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FUTURE OF HONG KONG: SPECIAL STUDY
AFF99.
1. You explained why the final version of this Study was going straight to Lord Belstead for onward transmission to the Secretary of State, with a side copy to me and others.
2. On reading it over the weekend, I found myself none too happy with the key paragraph 34, which sets out the Prime Minister's main objectives for her talks in Peking. This has been altered since I commented on the previous version, but not quite as I intended. I would envisage something more like the following:-
"1 34.
In her talks with Chinese leaders about Hong Kong the Prime Minister's main objectives will be:-
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(a) to secure Chinese agreement that negotiations
about the future should begin very soon on a basis acceptable to both sides, and that this agreement be registered in a joint statement in terms which will strengthen confidence in Hong Kong;
(b) failing this, to ensure as far as possible
that any public statements made from the Chinese side during or after the visit represent a sufficient step forward to maintain confidence in Hong Kong.
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Mr Fall tells me that he also has some thoughts.
31 August 1982
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